Tuesday, May 5, 2015

From
May 5th, 5:00pm until May 6th, 5:00pm, Southeast Florida Honor Flight
will participate in GREAT GIVE, a 24 hour online giving event designed
to raise as much money as possible for local non profits.

Every donation will be stretched further if you donate to Southeast
Florida Honor Flight as gifts made that day will receive a portion of
bonus funds, making your dollars go even further than they would on any
other day.

Southeast Florida Honor Flight is a 100% volunteer
organization and 98% of our proceeds go towards flying our WWII Heroes
and any veteran with a terminal illness to Washington DC to see their
memorials for the day for free. The program will naturally transition to
Korean War, Vietnam and all other veterans who served, on a chronological basis.

What better way to donate to Southeast Florida Honor Flight than during
National Military Appreciation Month where we recognize, remember and
honor past and present service members for all that they have done and
continue to do for our country.

Remember, this event takes place May 5th starting at 5:00pm until May 6th ending 5:00pm!!!!! All gifts (minimum donation of $10) must be made by credit or debit card by using our unique link: https://greatgiveflorida.org/#npo/southeast-florida-honor-flight-inc
or by calling 1-844-GIVE-DAY (1-844-448-3329). If you call, please be
sure to state that you would like to donate to Southeast Florida Honor
Flight.

Please help us continue to make our Heroes dreams
become a reality! Southeast Florida Honor Flight is grateful for your
support.

Muhammad Cartoon Contest: Note to Jihadists, in America, We Shoot Back

A pair of would-be jihadists learned a very important lesson over the weekend – in America, we shoot back.

The men, believed to be radicalized roommates from Phoenix, tried to
launch an attack on a gathering of freedom-lovers in of all places – the
Lone Star State. It would turn out to be a most unfortunate decision.

The cold hard reality is that we don’t know how many more radicalized Muslims might be living among us – waiting to wage jihad.

It turned out those practicing their First Amendment
rights were protected by those practicing their Second Amendment rights.
Within a matter of moments – the jihadists were quickly dispatched to
the Hereafter thanks to a straight-shooting traffic cop.

Authorities have yet to categorize it as a terrorist attack, but one
thing is clear. Police thwarted what could have been an unprecedented
massacre on American soil.

The intended target was a contest for cartoons depicting the Prophet
Muhammad, hosted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Among the
speakers were AFDI president Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders, a Dutch
lawmaker known for his criticism of radical Islam.

Now, you may not agree with Miss Geller's tactics. Some might accuse her of poking a bear – and that may very well be true.

But Miss Geller does have Constitutional right to poke the bear. She
does have a Constitutional right to free speech. And those who disagree
with her have a Constitutional right to disagree.

But they do not have a constitutional right to gun down those who
might say or write or draw something that disparages the Prophet
Muhammad.

Race, Politics and Lies

Among the many painful ironies in the current racial
turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted
by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown
was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri -- but there was
not nearly as much turmoil created by the demonstrable fact that a
fleeing black man was shot dead by a white policeman in South Carolina.

Totally
ignored was the fact that a black policeman in Alabama fatally shot an
unarmed white teenager, and was cleared of any charges, at about the
same time that a white policeman was cleared of charges in the fatal
shooting of Michael Brown.

In a world where the truth means so
little, and headstrong preconceptions seem to be all that matter, what
hope is there for rational words or rational behavior, much less mutual
understanding across racial lines?

When the recorded fatal
shooting of a fleeing man in South Carolina brought instant condemnation
by whites and blacks alike, and by the most conservative as well as the
most liberal commentators, that moment of mutual understanding was very
fleeting, as if mutual understanding were something to be avoided, as a
threat to a vision of "us against them" that was more popular.

That
vision is nowhere more clearly expressed than in attempts to
automatically depict whatever social problems exist in ghetto
communities as being caused by the sins or negligence of whites, whether
racism in general or a "legacy of slavery" in particular. Like most
emotionally powerful visions, it is seldom, if ever, subjected to the
test of evidence.

The "legacy of slavery" argument is not just an
excuse for inexcusable behavior in the ghettos. In a larger sense, it
is an evasion of responsibility for the disastrous consequences of the
prevailing social vision of our times, and the political policies based
on that vision, over the past half century.

You knew this was coming. It was inevitable. We have seen it before.
When the Obama Administration blamed the Benghazi jihad attack on a
video about Muhammad, there were calls in the mainstream media for
restrictions on the freedom of speech. Eric Posner in Slate derided the
First Amendment’s “sacred status” and declared that “Americans need […]

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